2018: Forbes unveils the highest paid woman of 2018 in music
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Forbes, the business magazine, rated Katy Perry in ninth in 2017 and lifted Beyonce as the highest paid woman of the year in the music industry in 2018.

The business magazine estimates that 34-year-old Perry earned $ 83 million in the period from June 2017 to June 2018.

It wrote "Perry played 80 dates on the world tour for her fifth album," Witness, "scoring more than $ 1 million a night and earning more than $ 20 million for her work as a judge with American Idol."

Forbes 2017's highest paid musician Beyoncé, 37, dropped to third place ($ 60 million) when her last On the Run II tour with husband Jay-Z fell largely outside her playing time.

Forbes commented on the performance of Beyonce: "After she and her husband Jay-Z welcomed the twins Rumi and Sir into the family in June 2017, Queen Bey had a quiet year by her standards."

Meanwhile, Taylor Swift, 28, has climbed from third place in 2017 to second place this year ($ 80 million). Many of the dates of the global tour for their sixth album, & # 39; # 39 ;, & reputation will count for the ranking 2019.

Swift recently left her longtime record label to sign with Republic Records and the Universal Music Group, whose financial terms have not been released.

This year's list includes many of the same artists as 2017, including Celine Dion, Britney Spears and Jennifer Lopez – and one of the runaways: the Russian-German star Helene Fischer in eighth place.

Fischer, 34, is a Schlager-style singer, a sentimental German pop tradition that shares themes with country music.

Her self-titled eighth album debuted in May 2017 at # 1 on the Austrian, German and Swiss album charts.

In Germany and Austria it has been awarded platinum nine times, where it has sold more than 1 million copies.

Forbes claims that their appearance on the $ 32 million profit list is largely due to a successful tour "Seven digits per stop".

Meanwhile, there were many musicians who had lucrative years, but the list was not completely written down.

Among them are Ariana Grande, Mariah Carey, Selena Gomez, Madonna, Halsey and Janet Jackson, all of whom made tens of millions of dollars.